Elias won the 1st prize at the Int. Valsesia Musica Violin Competition in Italy. In the final, he played Tschaikowski ´s Violin Concerto with the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra and conductor Lorenzo Passerini.
Elias won the 1st prize at the 3rd International Vladimir Spivakov Violin Competition in Ufa, Russia, only 2 weeks after winning the Int. Valsesia Musica Competition in Italy.
In the final he played the Tschaikowski Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan and conductor Mikhail Gerts. At the Gala concert he played the Tschaikowski Violin Concerto again under the baton of Maestro Vladimir Spivakov himself.
A few days before Elias premiered Beethoven’s concerto in C Major, WoO 5 in Hungary and performed Beethoven two romances together with Maestro István Dénes and the MAV Budapest Symphony Orchestra, he gave an interview on the orchestra‘s blog:
Interview Elias David Moncado MAV Budapest Symphony Orchestra Blog December 2020
Elias recently gave an interview about his 1st grand prize at the Int. Karol Lipinski Competition on The Violin Channel:
Elias was awarded with the 1st prize at the Gen Re Music scholarship 2019 in Cologne, Germany.
Elias was awarded the 1st grand prize as the youngest ever winner as well as 10 special prizes at the 5th International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition Poland.